Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...municipally-owned railway which brings her half a million a year, her celebrated zoo and outdoor opera, her beer, her famed families of Longworths and Tafts. Prouder still was she last week. Cincinnati had done for the fifth time what no other U. S. city of comparable size (452.000 pop.) had done twice in succession-reinaugurated a reform municipal government. And Cincinnati was that almost equally rare big town which closed its books Dec. 31, 1933 without a deficit...
...Grinnell College. When he returned to farming it was as an owner. But every time he thought of the newspaper business his left eye twitched with excitement (a habit he still retains) and finally he got a partner to manage his Iowa farm and went to Redfield, S. Dak. (pop. 2,664) to edit a newspaper. At 30 he was made editor and manager of the influential Montana Farmer at Great Falls (pop...
...There he worked at his usual swift pace and demanded the same of his subordinates. One minute he would put in a long distance telephone call and the next grab up the receiver to demand "How about it?" Then he would go striding off down a corridor, pop into someone's office to ask a question, pop out again, race back to his desk. Amiable, casual in manner, he sped callers on their way with "Good luck, old boy. Thanks for coming in." His job was to meet tycoons when they went to Washington with their problems...
...cramped the revenues and agelong privileges in Spain of Mother Church. Amazingly, hundreds of wives of Spanish grandees and nobles who have been living fearfully abroad boldly returned, bringing their husbands in many cases, to vote as their consciences commanded. All over Spain the arrival of a priest to pop his ballot into a voting urn was the signal for fervent female demonstrations, shrill appeals to the Holy Virgin to see that the election came out right...
...skirted scarlet coat and beaver hat, the perennial herald of the National Horse Show, Ringmaster Dutch White, blew "Pop Goes the Weasel" with many a false squawk on his coaching horn and another Manhattan social season commenced last week. It was more than a New York occasion. Dutch White's tootling this year opened a Golden Jubilee. Horses from Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Kansas and Czechoslovakia, riders from five nations (attracted also by last month's Chicago Fair horse show-TIME, Nov. 6) were at Madison Square Garden to participate...